Short post because it's late and I'm tired, but Ruby's pretty damn useful if you have boring tasks you want to automate:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
f = File.new(ARGV[0], 'r').read
f.each_byte do |b|
  $stdout.write('0x'+b.to_s(16)+', ')
end

in case you ever wanted to take your big binary file and inline it as a C array.